Description
Guide One: Your First Year in Celebrancy
Celebrancy in Practice series — Dinah Liversidge, Celebrant Coaching and Training Academy
The first year is the hardest. This guide makes it simpler.
You’ve trained. You’re ready – or almost. But between training and actually building a practice that pays, sustains you, and feels like you, there’s a whole year of decisions, questions, and moments where you wish someone experienced was looking over your shoulder.
This guide is that someone.
Your First Year in Practice is a comprehensive, plain-English companion that walks you through everything you actually need to do in year one – from your first week online to understanding your finances, from writing a contract to telling Google you exist. Written by Dinah Liversidge, a celebrant trainer and celebrant herself, with nearly three decades of experience in coaching and training, this is the honest, practical resource most new celebrants wish they’d had on day one.
What’s inside:
- How to showcase your credentials and use them to build trust with clients from the very first conversation
- Where couples and families are actually searching for celebrants right now – and exactly where you need to be listed
- A step-by-step guide to building your website, what to include, and how to make it accessible for everyone
- Contracts, deposits, and cancellation policies – what every client agreement needs to cover, with sample structures you can adapt
- A clear, jargon-free introduction to self-employment, tax, and keeping your finances in good order
- How to do a SWOT analysis for your new business – and actually use it
- Ten essential actions to take the moment your website goes live, so Google knows you’re there
- How to price yourself fairly – and why undercharging is more damaging than you think
This guide is for you if:
You’re newly qualified and want to get your foundations right from the start – or you’ve been practising for a while and suspect there are gaps you’ve never quite filled. Whether you trained in wedding celebrancy, funeral celebrancy, or both, the principles here apply to every celebrant building a practice they can be proud of.
About the series
Your First Year in Practice is Guide One in the Celebrancy in Practice series – an ongoing collection of in-depth guides covering every aspect of celebrant work, from business foundations to ceremony craft. Buy individual guides as you need them, or build your library over time.
Instant digital download. Yours to keep, revisit, and return to.
